DNA supercoiling

Rogier and Susanne,
Thanks for the advice. The other thing is I presume that standard
activated carbon is enough to decontaminate chloroquin containing
solutions prior to disposal.
Ronan
rogier wrote:
>> Hi Ronan,
> for pBR322 I use 1 to 15 ug/ml chloroquin in gel and running
> buffer.
> Topoisomers of pBR isolated from E. coli are clearly separated at
> 10 ug/ml chloroquin, except when the DNA is extremely relaxed
> (like when you add a gyrase inhibitor), then you need to add less
> chloroquin. Extremely supercoiled DNA needs more chloroquin to
> pull the bands apart. but not too much, or you'll get positively
> writhed plasmids on top of the negative ones.
> Good luck,
> Rogier
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